Word: postalized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Tickets by Wire. Last week the 16 theatre ticket brokers accredited by the League of New York Theatres resigned in anger. And almost simultaneously the League, which includes more than 80% of legitimate New York theatres, announced that henceforth Postal Telegraph & Cable Corp. will handle ticket orders through 125 of its offices in New York City. Postal will charge a 50? handling fee, will deliver reservation slips to customers' homes. 'About one-quarter of the tickets for each performance will be sold at box offices, may be taken by brokers. It has been possible in the past...
...transmits typewritten messages automatically and instantaneously between distant offices, enabling telegraph users to send their own "wires" directly, also to receive telegrams and messages from Teletype-equipped branch offices. (TIME uses such an instrument between editorial office in Manhattan and proof room in Chicago.) While both Western Union and Postal Telegraph & Cable have been increasingly large Teletype customers, the Bell System has more than 10,000 in use, many for its own system, many over leased wires. Another teletype product is the new high-speed stock ticker. The company last year had $12,000,000 gross sales. The deal will...
Gasoline Telegraph. Postal Telegraph & Cable's 7,000 branch offices last week became 10,500. The new ones were filling stations of Standard Oil of New Jersey, Colonial Beacon Oil, Standard Oil of Indiana, Standard Oil of Pennsylvania, Standard Oil of California, Standard Oil of Louisiana, Standard Oil of Ohio, Standard Oil of Nebraska, Utah Oil Refining Co. Under the terms of the agreement, the stations will display Postal signs, attendants will furnish blanks. They will carry the blanks out to motorists sitting in their cars at the pump, if desired, and immediately telephone their messages to the nearest...
...stamps (29,800) were speedily sold. Letters from the facetious, protests from puritans flooded the Spanish Postoffice, the International Postal Union. Plaints ranged from statements that what is art in Latin countries is obscenity in the Nordic north, to threats of official proceedings against the Spanish Government for sending obscene matter through the mails. To the postal union wrote a Swiss zealot...
Democrat Byrns, afire with political zeal, added to the agreed total of 1931 appropriations $51,000,000 for future payment of War claims, and $199,310,597.12 appropriated in the first or special session of this Congress for farm relief and back postal pay to railroads, arriving at a total of $5,124,239,830.28. This sum, he argued, exceeded last year's appropriations by $459,003,062.24. He made much of the fact that White House appropriations under President Hoover had jumped $91,840 from the $43 7, 1 80 President Coolidge got along with. Said he : "Even...